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Need WordPress landing page? Then here are some good plugins for you!

What is Landing page?

A Landing page is a web page deliberately created to help you convert visitors to your site into leads because it provides you with the means for capturing an email address. A good Landing page should have these elements:

A page completely focused on the offer

A compelling headline and space to explain how the offer delivers sufficient value

An image

A form

A means for delivering the offer

Here are some good WordPress plugins to create a good landing page.

Thrive Architect

Thrive Architect is one of the most popular WP landing page plugins. It comes with a drag & drop editor and a large selection of landing page templates. As it is a drag and drop editor you can customize almost any aspect of a landing page.

The content editor that powers Thrive, Architect, is no slouch, either. Thrive Themes is always focused on conversions, so they’ve packed it with the elements that are necessary for great landing pages.Thrive Architect has 150+ templates you can choose one of them or start from scratch.

Here are Thrive Architect features for your kind review:

Full-width layouts – no matter which theme you use.

150+ templates.

Customize almost every aspect of your landing pages.

Designed with speed in mind.

Undo and redo functionality.

Plenty of conversions focused elements to add to your landing pages.

Edit both pages and posts.

Supports external shortcodes within the editor.

Editor loads fast which make customization straightforward.

“What you see is what you get” style editor makes customization easy.

Mobile responsive

This plugin is not free but not expensive. You need to pay $67 for a year and you will get free support too.

OptimizePress

The 2nd well-known plugin is OptimizePress. It is both plugin and theme which allows you to hand over your whole site design to OptimizePress, while the plugin lets you keep your current design, and only use OptimizePress on individual landing pages.

This plugin is designed for WordPress and there will be no WordPress – plugin conflict. You can choose from 30 different templates and adopt them as your own. Or you can customize it with the help of the Visual Editor. The OpimizePress plugin can integrate at the API level with Aweber, MailChimp, GetResponse, iContact, Office Autopilot, Infusionsoft and 1Shopping Cart. The OptimizePress has a huge verity of content elements which you can add to your site. The OptimizePress costs $97.

Here are some features of the OptimizePress:

Theme and plugin version available

Advanced editor which allows for granular customization.

Comes with a membership plugin

Access to the Optimize Marketplace where you can find extra templates. This includes both free and paid templates

Tones of page templates

2-step opt-in functionality.

Large selection of elements you can add to your landing pages.

More than 40 content elements available

Split testing capability.

Mobile friendly

Beaver Builder

Beaver Builder is primarily a drag & drop page building plugin that also works as a landing page builder. Using it’s front-end visual editor, you can craft eye-catching custom page layouts without any fuss. This plugin includes 30 landing page templates. You can change anything you want and can add or remove some elements which you want. As other WP Landing Page plugins, the Breaver Builder also has some features.

Here are for your review:

Visual editor is very easy to use

It has a large selection of elements which mean that you can create what you want

It has 30 eye-catching landing page templates

Various content page templates for team pages, contact pages, portfolio pages and more.

Parallax scrolling backgrounds

Visibility control over certain modules

Integrates with popular email providers via AP

Import/export features.

Works with a current theme

Mobile-friendly

It is not very expensive. You only will pay $97 for a year.

Leadpages

Leadpages is one of the most important WP landing page plugins. It includes powerful features like LeadPages, Lead Boxes, Lead Digits, Lead Links, A/B Split Testing, Analytics and Template Importer. It is very easy and quick to use. You just select a template, click a button, customize it and hit publish. Leadpage is very customizable.

One of the most important advantages of Leadpage is that you can create unlimited landing pages and use them on unlimited websites – or, host them all via Leadpages, and you can view them all from a single dashboard.

Features:

It has a huge selection of templates

Split testing functionality

Simple landing page editor.

Hosts landing pages via Leadpages servers which can reduce a load on your hosting environment.

You can join your list by clicking a single link

Mobile friendly

The cheapest landing page

As other Landing page plugins, this one is not free but it is the cheapest plugin. The cost is $25 for a year.

Qards

Qards is the well-known and widely spread landing page plugin which is very easy to use. The price is $99.

Features:

it works with most WordPress themes

it’s really easy to grasp thanks to the card-based structure of the content

Multiple types of content boxes available, each fully customizable.

Default designs make things look sharp and modern.

Everything works with drag-and-drop.

Works with a current theme

Mobile-friendly

100% custom landing pages

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What is Git? Why Is Git Important for your WordPress website?

Git is an ultimate necessity for developers so let’s go ahead to find it out.

Git was created in 2005 and now millions of people are using it. There are many version control systems (version control systems are categories of software tools that help a software team manage changes to source code over time. Version control software keeps track of every modification to the code in a special kind of database) but Git is the most well-known system. It is used for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people.

Git doesn’t only focus on the storage and version history of the file tree but also on the file content itself.

The object format of Git’s repository files uses a combination of delta encoding compression and explicitly stores directory contents and version metadata objects.

The top priority of Git is the integrity of managed source code. It secures the content of the file, the relationships of the files and directories, versions, tags and commits. And these are secured a cryptographically secure hashing algorithm called SHA1.

Now let’s understand why you need Git.

Git not only helps you manage the code of your site but also tracks changes and enables multiple developers to work on the same files at the same time and acts as an extra backup of the files of your site in the process.

It uploads the changes to each file and records when files were changed, who made the changes and it gives you the ability to undo them.

It doesn’t matter if you are using Git for a small business or for a big one.

Let’s imagine that you have a WP projects and many developers. Thus you open some repository and create many tasks there. You assign the tasks to John. He must do it in 2 hours but he has some problem and need help so you can assign it to another developer too. However, as he did some changes and Git keeps you informed what kind of changes there were. What does it mean? It means that 2 developers work on the same task, therefore, you can see who and when that change as done by.

Consequently, you maintain the workflow and change history. With the complete history of your WordPress project, you will be able to go back to previous versions and conduct root analysis of bugs, which can be crucial when you have to fix possible issues on your website.

If those improvements are not ok for you can revert the changes. How?

Git gives you an opportunity to roll back the changes. Possibly you may think that you need that part but in some days you understand that you don’t need it any longer. So you can roll back the changes which you want.

Git helps you to collaborate with other team members easily. It means that each member of the development team can work on any file at the same time. It will allow you to merge all the changes into a common version. Thus leaving no question of where the latest version of a file or a project is.

Git helps you to ensure a Safe Backup. Your team members have a complete version of the WordPress project on their disk-including the project’s complete history. If your server breaks down you can improve it by recovering from your teammates’ local repositories

Git has some tools which are very useful for your WordPress website.

GUI’s are using to have a user-friendly interface and also you can use it to make the learning process and managing the code easier for you.

Git hosts are the place where your Git repositories are but you can push the changes on your localhost too.

It has a WP Pusher which allows the user to link WordPress site to a WP plugin or theme hosted in a GitHub repository.

Gitlum assist you to automatically version any changes to plugin and themes directly from the WordPress admin dashboard

WP GitHub Sync is a tool which keeps a runni8ng history of edited to your content in a GitHub repository

Version Press is a tool which tracks every change you make to your site automatically

Reviser is similar to Version Press but it tracks changes when you commit changes to the Git repository manually.

In conclusion, as Git is the most known version control system it can help you manage your WordPress site.

Git focuses on the file content itself.

It is the integrity of managed source code and it secures the content of the file, the relationships of the files and directories, versions, tags and commits

Git is very safe as your server breaks down you can improve it by recovering from your teammates’ local repositories. If you did some changes you can undo them and save the change history.

Your developers can connect easily as they can see the whole tasks.

You can assign the same task more than one developer and you will save money and time.

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WooCommerce vs Shopify: Comparative study of the best eCommerce platforms

This article is about the 2 best, most popular and easy-to-use eCommerce platforms available on the market: WooCommerce and Shopify.

So, first of all, let’s understand what eCommerce platform is and then pass on WooCommerce and Shopify.

An eCommerce platform is a software application that allows you to build storefronts (a storefront is any customer or business facing proposition relating to the selling of products and services). E-commerce platform is a key factor for online business. Online businesses need additional software to manage back-end functions for accounting, order management, inventory management, and customer service. In this regard eCommerce platforms give you full control over the mentioned functions.

Now let’s speak about WooCommerce. What is it?

WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce plugin built for WordPress. It allows you to leverage the most powerful content management system (CMS) and use it to run an online store. As it’s open-source nature, you can customize every aspect of your store and easily build custom extensions.

What is Shopify?

Shopify is an all-in-one eCommerce platform that makes it easy for you to create an online store, accept payments, and manage your inventory all from a single platform without ever worrying about the technical aspects of maintaining a website such as a web hosting, security, caching, etc.

gett9ing known with a brief introduction to Commerce platform, WooCommerce and what is Shopify we can pass to detailed specification.

Now the let’s do the comparative analysis of both platforms which can help you to choose one of them for your online businesses. The first priority that I’d like to talk about is design.

Shopify and WooCommerce have wonderful designs both of them can help you to have an amazing website.

Shopify has many themes10 of which are free. The themes are really amazing and they have a great and appealing visual quality which is very important for your online shop. All the themes have unique variations and so you can simply get more than 100 separate designs.

The 2nd advantage of Shopify themes is the mobile responsive which will give you an opportunity to have modern, forward-thinking website.

Themes are easy to use. Besides with coloring options and you can do color optimization in order to have a more fashionable online store.

As already mentioned, there are both paid and free themes available for everyone. The price for billable themes fluctuates between180-200$$.

What about WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin which assists you to make your store. You can install any WordPress them on your site.

There are tons of free themes that you can get inasmuch as the design is very important you have to choose the theme which is exactly made for WooCommerce. One of the best online free themes is Storefront. The Storefront is a really amazing theme and contains all the important elements of the eCommerce store. The Storefront is intuitive and flexible and has a deep integration with WooCommerce. The Storefront also has child themes. As for pricing they are not free but not as expensive as Shopify themes. Child themes are available at $39 apiece. As you see WooCommerce has many advantages over Shopify concerning design. It is true that Shopify has amazing themes though they are limited, on the other hand, WooCommerce has many themes which are fully available. Meanwhile, WooCommerce is an open source and there are many developers who sell themes, therefore, you can buy them cheaper them Shopify themes.

Now let’s compare WooCommerce and Shopify features.

Shopify provides: Automatic fraud analysis, Unlimited products, Manual order creation, Discount codes, Unlimited file storage, Adjustable shipping rates and taxes, Mobile commerce optimization, Blog module, Free SSL certificate, Embedded Oberlo integration, Mobile commerce optimization, Credit card payments, Multiple languages, Customer profiles, Social media integration, Facebook selling module, Individual product reviews, SEO-ready site structure, Editable HTML and CSS, Physical and digital products in the store, Daily backups, Fully featured mobile app, Print orders, Gift cards, Abandoned cart recovery etc.

WooCommerce offers interesting additions. Let’s take a trip insight.

With the help of WooCommerce, you can sell physical and digital products. You can also do affiliate marketing. Payment systems such as PayPal and Stripe are available in WooCommerce which is crucial for your online shop. WooCommerce’s structure is mobile friendly, it has Stock levels control, thus you will have complete control over your data. Besides, it works with your current WP theme. Moreover, what is more thrilling, it has free Facebook ads and Facebook stores extension, Unlimited number of products and product categories.

Now let’s speak about which one is suitable to use Shopify or WooCommerce?

For Shopify store, you need to visit Shopify.com click the signup button, go through a basic setup wizard. After signing up, you can choose your shop type and also choose design and structure of your shop. Then you will get the accesses to the main dashboard. When you have the store running you can access every crucial option from the sidebar of the dashboard.

The main advantage of Shopify store is that you don’t need any design or site-building skills in order to get through it, as the process is straightforward. When you add some new products all product parameters are available from a single panel and there is no need to visit different dashboards.

As WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin, it means that you must handle some things before working with WooCommerce itself.

At first, you should get a domain name after that sign up for a hosting account, set up WordPress and then find and install a WordPress theme. After doing these steps you can install WooCommerce plugin and use your online store.

However, if you choose the specialized WordPress hosting company it will take care of the domain and WordPress installation so you only need to do the WooCommerce part.

Now let’s pass on the payment methods which are cornerstone for any online store.

There are many payment methods which you can use but some of them can be more suitable for you depending on the business and store type.

Shopify offers many payment methods and also it has its own method Shopify Payments. Overall the disadvantage is that Shopify charges 2% of each transition but you can reduce the fee to 0.5% by paying $299 per month for Advanced Shopify plan.

WooCommerce offers PayPal and Stripe payments but you can also add other payments through adds.

Unlike Shopify WooCommerce never charges fees. As a self-hosted platform, you only charge transaction fees by your payment gateway or your bank.

3rd party integrations are very important for boosting your online business. Both Shopify and WooCommerce have this function. You can buy 3rd party add-ons for your Shopify store. There are free and paid apps on Shopify store. Free apps are usually created by third-party services that have their own pricing, and the app only integrates your store to their APIs.

What about WooCommerce as it is a WP plugin you can easily integrate the payment system into your store. There are more than 50,000 free and paid plugins and by the help of that plugins, you can add payment gateways, lead generation, SEO, performance optimization, and almost any feature you can think of.

When you have a site it is very important to find great online support.

Shopify does not have such customer supports as WooCommerce. The best Shopify customer support is support.shopify.com it is the best Shopify support system.

So Investigating the two best eCommerce platforms we come to a conclusion that

Both of them are good for your business: you only need to understand what you want

Unlike WooCommerce Shopify has some free plugins,

Both are mobile responsive,

Shopify and WooCommerce are SEO friendly but in this regard, WooCommerce is more forward-looking,

Shopify is one-click eCommerce

You can integrate payment systems on Shopify but it charges fees,

WooCommerce doesn’t charge any fees so it is more convenient,

Shopify has less customer support system then WooCommerce does,

WooCommerce gives you full control of your website.

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Famous WordPress themes and plugins for e-commerce

As the World is developing too fast it is very important for your online business to have a modern online store. It is not as expensive as you think. As WordPress is the best CMS there are many eCommerce plugins and themes which can help you build and even grow your business.

In this article, I would like to tell you about WordPress best eCommerce plugins and themes. I will compare for you to choose the ones which are more suitable for you. It is very important to choose the right plugin or theme which will be crucial for the growth of your business.

Best WP plugins

Let’s speak about is the best WP eCommerce plugins in 2018.

There are tons of E-commerce plugins but not all of them have the essential set of features which you want.

There are three types of plugins:

Good for selling digital goods,

Better suited for selling physical goods,

Those which are suitable for both purposes.

You have to choose the plugin depending on what you are going to sell and what kind of features you need your online store to have.

The 2nd thing that you should pay attention to is payment gateways. You should make sure that the plugin you choose supports those payment gateways by default or through add-ons.

The 3rd one you should take into consideration is to figure out whether the plugin you choose has themes that work with the plugin.

And, last but not the least, you should know if there are support systems that can assist you with technical issues.

Let’s speak about one of the best eCommerce plugins as WooCommerce.

WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress plugin. There are many add-ons and themes which are available for WooCommerce.

WooCommerce has many advantages:

WooCommerce has many available themes and extensions which are making easy to add new features to your suite. These themes help you change your site’s design and layout

WooCommerce helps you to sell physical and digital downloads

When you use WooCommerce you can add affiliate or external products to your site

WooCommerce helps you to manage your inventory and gives you a chance to assign it to your store manager

WooCommerce has payment gateways but you can add other payments by the help of extensions. It also calculates shipping and taxes

WooCommerce has disadvantages too

It has too many options and it can be intimidating for a new user

There are many add-ons and the user cannot find the right addon

WooCommerce works with WP themes but not the whole themes are easy to install that’s why you need WooCommerce ready themes.

Next WordPress eCommerce plugin is Memberpress

The Memberpress allows you to sell subscription-based digital products and services. You can even integrate it on WooCommerce.

Memberpress also has advantages and disadvantages

Advantages:

It allows selling membership plans and subscription-based products

It has Powerful Access Rules (allows you to define user access levels and content restrictions. Only users with permissions will be able to access restricted content)

You can integrate it into your WooCommerce store

Disadvantages:

It has limited payment options. It only supports PayPal and Stripe.

Pricing plans are not available monthly they only available for a year

Now let’s speak about Shopp

Shopp is the other eCommerce plugin and as others, it also has advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages:

There are Separate Tables in Database which improve the database performance

It supports physical, digital, and virtual product types. It allows you to sell products with recurring payments without buying an extension

The Shopp pays special attention to security and safety which helps you create a PCI-DSS compliant eCommerce store.

Disadvantages

The Shopp doesn’t have a free support forms

It is true that Shopp is working with WP themes but if you are looking a theme which is designed specifically for Shopp then there are very few options available.

Best WP themes

Now let us move on the best WordPress eCommerce themes.

A shopkeeper is the 1st WP theme that I would like to introduce to you.

The shopkeeper is one of the best eCommerce themes, it is fully responsive, a premium theme with a great design and extensive functionality. The setup is quick, easy maintenance and it has a great customizer option.

The shopkeeper is updating regularly, and there are many support systems which can help you. It is mobile friendly and has a blog option. Shopkeeper’s speed is quicker which is important for an online store.

Similar to many other themes, Shopkeeper is fully integrated with the WooCommerce plugin and supports translation with the WPML plugin. It’s extremely easy to navigate and is also responsive to screen size.

Flatsome is the 2nd bestseller theme.

Flatsome’s design is clear. It follows the flat design trend. All the products are clearly visible in the center part, it is fully responsive and mobile friendly, it offers unlimited sidebars and widget areas, the navigation is easy, it’s translation-ready and built-in social media integration.

Divi is the 3rd best theme. The design is highly adjustable. It focuses on the center block of the layout, it is fully responsive, the structure of navigation is good, you can showcase your featured offers in the header part of the layout or through the Divi Builder. It is multilingual and has 32 languages. It has a great Social media integration.

Lotus is the 4th eCommerce theme. It has a modern design. It is mobile friendly. It has many languages so you can choose one or some of theme. Visual Composer and Revolution Slider are included here. It has one Click Demo Import, Speed and SEO optimized, Multi-column mega-menu, Multi-Browser Compatible, Product Wishlist, Coded using the latest standards and best practices etc.

Lotus has a powerful easy to use options panel that lets you customize the site how you like it.

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Useful ways that you will need to secure eCommerce websites.

Nowadays hacking and breaches are the most famous and dangerous cyber-crimes. Every day you hear about hacking a website or stealing credit card credentials and other sensitive data from e-commerce sites.

Therefore, if you have an e-commerce site, first of all, you have to do is to secure your customers’ date.

In this article, I would like to speak about some steps that you have to do for your eCommerce site.

1.Choose a Better E-commerce Hosting Service

One of the top priority of your eCommerce site is security that’s why you should choose a better hosting service. If your eCommerce site has a good backup service your e-commerce site can be easily restored after a security breach.

Your hosting service must have 24/7 support, maximum uptime and RAID data protection that creates a backup copy of your website on multiple disks. Managed cloud-hosting platform is the most secure platform.

2. Choose a Secure eCommerce platform

When you choose an e-commerce you have to account for various factors such as support, performance and features. Moreover it is also very important for your e-commerce to use secure payment gateways, releases security patches and include shipping method extensions.

When you put your eCommerce site on a platform that uses an OOP (object-orientated programming language) your site will become safe and secure.

There are many e-commerce secure platforms such as Magento, Prestashop, and WooCommerce.

3. Use HTTPS

Let’s understand what is HTTP and HTTPS.

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is a protocol that’s used by a client and server which allows you to communicate with other websites. The client sends a request message to an HTTP server which hosts a website. The server then sends the response message which contains completion status information, such as “HTTP/1.1 200 OK”.

Now let’s pass on HTTPS.

HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. When you enter https:// in your address bar in front of the domain, it tells the browser to connect over HTTPS. Generally, sites running over HTTPS will automatically redirect over a secured connection to https:// so even if you don’t type https://. HTTPS also uses TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) to send and receive data packets, but it connects over port 443, within a connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Let’s pass on the differences:

1) HTTPS is more secure than HTTP

2) HTTPS sends data over port 443 while HTTP uses port 80

3) HTTPS operates at transport layer while HTTP operates at the application layer

4) HTTPS required SSL Certificate which has to be signed by a CA, while HTTP does not require an SSL certificate

5) HTTPS requires at least domain validation and certain certificates along with legal document validation while HTTP doesn’t require domain validation

6) HTTPS the data is encrypted before sending while HTTP doesn’t encrypted

HTTPS ensure users’ protection as it creates a secure link between the users’ browsers and your servers to prevent hackers from stealing your data.

4. Don’t Store Sensitive Customer Data

You should not store any sensitive data like customer credit card information on your website as this can lead to decrease in mutual trust in case the information is hacked.

In order to avoid frauds, you have to use tokenization. Tokenization helps to prevent credit card fraud and it generates random numbers called tokens in place of customer information

5. Keep Your Website Updated and take regular backups

You have to update your site regularly as you don’t know when the hackers will begin their attack. If your site is vulnerable it gives the chance to hack it easily.

Regularly backing up your eCommerce will make it more secure. If your site is backed up you can restore it with the help of your hosting provider. Only you will be sure that your hosting provider has automatic backups.

6. Encourage users to protect their information

One of the most significant things is login portal. If the hacker has access to admin information or a consumer login, they can do quite a bit of damage.

Secure password and login are very important for customers and for you. So inform them to put long and difficult passwords. Be sure that each password for your site is a minimum of 8 characters and has at least a number, a symbol, a lower case letter, and an uppercase letter.

7. Secure Your Admin Area

The protection of admin area is considered one of the important parts of site’s security. If you are using Magento or WooCommerce, one can see that those platforms have default admin area which gives you the opportunivores to avoid being easy targets.

The first thing that you have to do is to change the default administrator username.

You can restrict access to the admin area by setting up a ‘whitelist’ of IP addresses which your server administrator controls so that access to the admin area is only permitted to known IP addresses.

If you do these steps then your site will be secure.

8. Use a GeoLocation Anti-Fraud Software

GeoLocation Anti-fraud Software is provided a real-time fraud score, which is available to the merchant to determine the level of risk of any particular transaction.

Conclusion

Discussing all the things that are necessary for you to have a secure eCommerce we come to a conclusion that you need to:

· Spend money on hosting services for having secure eCommerce

· Choose a reliable platform for your eCommerce

· Change your HTTP eCommerce to HTTPS

· You shouldn’t store your customers’ dates

· Backup your site regularly and update it permanently

· Ask your users to put a secure password and login which will contain minimum 8 characters and has at least a number, a symbol, a lower case letter, and an uppercase letter

· Secure your admin area and change default admin name

· Use GeoLocation Anti-Fraud Software which will help you to avoid using stolen cards on your site.

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What is web hosting? Which are the best hosting companies for WordPress you will ever need?

Web hosting is a service that allows organizations and individuals to post a website or web page onto the Internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed on the Internet. Websites are hosted or stored, on special computers called servers.

There are different types of web hosting services:

Shared Web Hosting (Your website is hosted on a server shared by other websites. It is not free and you can pay $5-$10 per month for sharing a super server with (hundreds of other websites

Reseller Web Hosting (resells your web hosting). Reseller web hosting has free website templates, labeled technical support which means that your clients can get a free support, (private name servers).

Cloud-Based Web Hosting (refers to a fairly new hosting technology that lets hundreds of individual servers work together so that it looks like one giant server)

Virtual Private Server (VPS) (share one physical server but acts like multiple, separate servers)

Dedicated Web Server (you are renting one physical server from a hosting company and a dedicated server is generally the highest level of a server)

Colocation Web Hosting

Self Service Web Hosting

Managed WordPress Hosting

Now let’s pass on the second part of my article. In this part, I will speak about the best WordPress hosting services and evaluate their quality and then you can choose one of them which will be suitable and affordable for your business.

It is true that there are free hosting services but the disadvantage is that they provide limited services.

Web hosting is very important for each business. So if you choose an exact web hosting your business will grow easily.

1. Bluehost

Bluehost is one of the oldest web hosts. It was founded in 1996. Bluehost if the official WordPress recommended hosting service. If you choose the Bluehost you will never worry about the website being slow even when there is a lot of traffic.

Bluehost has 24/7 support which is very important. they are offering WPBeginner users an exclusive 63% off discount, a Free Domain, Free SSL, and a free Site Builder with templates.

Bluehost is very simple. You just need to install it with one click. It has Enhanced cPanel which means that you can manage your websites, domains, emails, and more from one central location. If your business grows you can migrate your account to a VPS or dedicated server with just a click.

Bluehost gives free domain and standard plan costing $2.95 a month for the initial term, rising to $39.99.

2. HostGator

HostGator is the next largest web hosting provider. It was founded in 2007 and hosts over 8 million domains. It generally delivers powerful hosting plans for a fair price, and its managed WordPress range is no exception. Its Starter product may only cost $5.95 for year one, $9.95 afterwards, but you still get a free site migration, an SSL certificate, automatic malware detection and removal, unlimited email addresses and unmetered storage and bandwidth, and it can handle up to 100,000 visits a month.

HostGator gives you an opportunity to get back your money during the first 45 days if you are not satisfied with their services.

HostGator installed with one click, it has 24/7 support, CDN service, Free migration service, All plans include unlimited email addresses, All plans include $100 Google AdWords credit, 2.5x faster servers, Best rates as compared to the competitors.

3. SiteGround

SiteGround is known as one of the best WordPress hosting services because of its impressive support and performance. SiteGround is also officially recommended by WordPress. It was founded in 2004. Today the company hosts over 5 million domains.

SiteGround has some features which make it unique:

· Updated software and servers

· 1-Click WordPress Install

· SuperCache technology:

· Free CDN

· One free domain

· Git comes pre-Installed

· Automatic Backups

· 24/7 support

It also provides three website hosting features for different users. For starters, it has a startup package that costs $3.95/month. It also has a regular hosting package for users who get around a thousand visitors on their website. The cost of this feature is $5.95.

4. InMotion Hosting

The next biggest WP hosting is InMotion. It offers six WordPress plans, covering everything from small personal blogs to resellers and big business.

The monthly cost starts from $4.99 to $114.99.

InMotion has some features:

· 1-Click WordPress Install

· 24/7 support

· free domain

· free SSL

· unlimited bandwidth and email addresses

· backups

· automatic updates

· cPanel site management

· SiteLock security

· extras like BoldGrid and WP-CLI

· 90-day money back guarantee

5. iPage

IPage is the next largest web hosting service. It was founded in 1998 and hosts over a million websites.

Hosting plans start at $3.75 to $6.95 per month. As other hosting services iPage also has some features:

· 1 Click WordPress Install

· iPage page builder

· CDN service

· Malware Scans

· SiteLock Security

· $100 Google and $100 Bing credit to promote your business

· 24/7 support

· Unlimited email addresses and a free one-year domain

In conclusion, each hosting service is unique and has different planes so you need to choose the one which will be good for the growing of your business. I told you about the features of each hosting service. Choose the one which you want. Good luck.

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5 awesome project management tools: Get your projects to the point

In this article, I will introduce you 5 project management tools that you will need to get your project to the point. They are as follows:

Asana

Jira

Trello

GitHub

Basecamp

I will introduce you these tools and I think you will choose one of them.

So at first let’s understand what is project management tool.

Project management tools are aids to assist an individual or team to effectively organize work and manage projects and tasks. Project management tool has to provide some basic features :

Planning/scheduling

Collaboration

Documentation

Evaluation

Asana

Asana is the most widely spread project management tool. It was founded in 2008 and now many companies such as Airbnb, Deloitte, NASA, Allstate, USAID, RedBull etc. use it as main project management tool. It should be mentioned that Asana has over 1.4 million users.

Asana allows teams to share, plan, organize, and track the progress of the tasks that each member works on. It is free for the teams who are not up to 30 members.

Asana is very simple to use. You just need to install it and your team has the same email address structure. As it is an agile project management platform it allows us to manage projects and tasks easily.

Each team can create its own workplace and put tasks there. You can make a note about each task, write comments, tag someone and also attach files or add labels. This tool can be used as for the small processes and for the giant ones without any limits in the industries or departments.

Here are some features that you should know about Asana:

You can write comments about each task

Attach task to someone and tag another one for following the task

Asana’s inbox feature puts the tasks that matter so you can stop searching for what’s important.

You set date due for each task and also switch on the loop for constantly repeating tasks.

It has calendar function so you can make a task for some days

Jira

Jira is the next well-known project management system. It allows the user to fix bugs, make tasks etc. The JIRA dashboard has many useful functions & features which help you handle different issues easily. Some of the key features and issues: issue types, workflow’s, screens, fields, issue attributes.

There are some features that Jira has:

Plan

Prioritize and discuss your team’s work

Set start date and end date

Choose a workflow, or make your own

Tools integration

Trello

Trello was founded in 2011. It provides a straightforward system for organizing and monitoring projects at a glance.

You can use Trello for managing your tasks, for handling team workflow, for managing your development schedule, for organizing upcoming projects, for keeping an eye on a content marketing campaign etc.

Trello has some features:

Simple to us

Add workplace

Categorize your tasks ( to do, in progress, done)

You can add descriptions, attachments,subtasks or checklists, due dates and times, assignees, and labels

You can upload images and filesfrom your device, or from Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or OneDrive. And with a simple click-and-drag, cards can be moved from one list to another.

You can integrate Trello in Slack, Github, and Intercom straight to your cards. You can even connect Hub staff to keep track of the time your team spends working on specific cards.

GitHub

Github is another project management system but it has an advantage as developers know it it is very simple for them to use. So choosing GitHub you will save your time and money.

As other project management systems GitHub also has useful features. Here are they for your kind review:

It has built-in tagging system which means that you can easily organize and prioritize your workflow and easily search through projects for relevant information.

Millstone is the next advantage of GitHub so you can easily create tasks assign it to someone and set a deadline.

Multi assignment helps you assign the tasks to different developers meanwhile.

Commenting can boost discussion about each task

It gives you the option to split a larger task into small tasks

The ability to use markdown formatting will prove popular with your developers, and it can be used in most places around GitHub.

Project boards can help you pull requests and notes, categorizing them as cards in columns if you’re choosing so you can look at larger projects as a whole.

Integration is the next advantage you can integrate GitHub with Slack, ZenHub, Everhour, HuBoard etc.

Many famous companies such as MailChimp, SAP, Braintree, Hootsuite, The Trainline, HubSpot, the DLR Institute of Robotics and even NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CoverMyMeds etc are using GitHub for managing their projects.

Basecamp

Basecamp was founded in 2004 and now 150.000 companies are using it. It is a web-based software, allowing users to sign in anywhere, anytime, either through a web browser or through apps compatible with a large number of mobile devices.

Now let’s enumerate its features:

If you are included in a message’s recipients list, you will receive a notification email each time someone posts to that message thread. To reply, you can simply reply to the email and it will be added to the message thread automatically alerting the other message recipients. You can even include attachments on the email and these will be added to the project files.

When you create a task you can put it in on dos and add due dates.

Millstone is very important as it reminds the developer that he/she will finish it in for example 2 hours.

You can use Writeboards for documentation and specifications

It has a file section which helps you to store all project files such as wireframes, visuals, images and supplied text documents etc.

It has a search function which will help the manager to find the task and will help the developer to find his/her task quickly without spending much time

Taking into consideration all mentioned and explained above, one can see that it is very important to choose exact project management tool which can indeed contribute to project building process.

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SEO basics: How to optimize your website content

What is SEO?

SEO is a crucial technique that provides more visibility for your website. SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results (Organic search traffic is specifically any unpaid traffic that comes from SERPs).

There are a lot of factors that are included in a search engine’s algorithm:

Domain Level, Link Authority features(quantity of link to the domain, trust/quality of links to the domain, domain-level PageRank) – 20.94%

Page level Link features( PageRank, TrustRank, a number of link links, anchor text distribution, quality of link sources etc) – 19,15%

Page Level KW and Content Features ( TF IDF, topic-modeling scores on content, content quantity/relevance) – 14,94%

Page-Level, Keyword-Agnostic Features( content length, readability, uniqueness, load speed)- 9.8%

Domain level based features(offline usage of brand/domain name, mentions of brand/domain in new media/press entity association)- 8,59%

The user, Usage traffic quarry date ( traffic/usage signals from browsers,/toolbars, quantity/ diversity, CTR of queries)- 8,06%

Social Metrics ( quality/quantity of tweeted links)- 7,24%

Domain Level Keyword Usage( exact-match keyword domains, partial-keyword matches)- 6,98%

Domain level Keyword Agnostic Feature( domain name length, TLD extension, domain HTTP, respond time)- 5,21%

SEO is mostly important as Google Algorithm looks for pages that contain high-quality, relevant information according to the searcher’s query. Besides Google Algorithm pays attention to the content of your site.

Now let’s pass on the second part of our article. Let’s discuss the things that you should know about optimizing.

The first thing that is very important for your website is to know what search engines are looking for.

So the at first you should pay attention to the content which is very important for searchers. If you use unique content and there is not any plagiarize the Google will put it on the first page.

The 2nd one is performance. It means that you should pay attention to the speed of your site. The more speed your website has, the more people will use it.

The 3rd one is authority. It means that your site must have unique content to link to.

The 4th one is you should pay attention to How does the site look? Is it easy to navigate around? Does it look safe? Does it have a high bounce rate?

If you want that your site is the first page on Google you should optimize for multi-channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc.

Domain name is the next thing that you should pay attention to. It will be simple but it will attract attention and it must be memorable.

Create rich media content like video and optimize your non-text content so search engines can see it. If your site uses Flash or PDFs, make sure you read up on the latest best practices so search engines can crawl that content and give your site credit for it.

Mata description (is the short paragraph of text that appears under your page’s URL in the search results, it’s also something you should have complete control of in your CMS.) is another need that your site must have.

By the help of Schema markup, you can make your search results appear more attractive by adding Schema markup to the HTML of your pages. This can turn your search results into a rich media playground, adding star-ratings, customer ratings, images, and various other bits of helpful info.

The use of Google Keyword Planner will help you optimize your site too. Before using words you have to search them on Google Keyword Planner and after that use the words which are searchable for the users.

You should pay attention to page titles. They must have the same structure

Alt text makes your website’s images SEO friendly. It’s another avenue for search engines to find your website based on keywords. The text description you provide for an image gives search engines an idea of what the image represents and what the context is. Because of this, it makes your images more accessible – and this means it’s important to use keywords in the alt text.

H1 Tags (heading tags) are the header tags of HTML which allow you to make certain words stand out on a page. Header tags should include keywords that closely relate to the page title and content. Most commonly, the H1 tag is your page title and the H2 tag is a subheading of other primary keywords.

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SEO basics: How to optimize your website content

What is SEO?

SEO is a crucial technique that provides more visibility for your website. SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results (Organic search traffic is specifically any unpaid traffic that comes from SERPs). There are a lot of factors that are included in a search engine's algorithm:

Domain Level, Link Authority features(quantity of link to the domain, trust/quality of links to the domain, domain-level PageRank) – 20.94%

Page level Link features( PageRank, TrustRank, a number of link links, anchor text distribution, quality of link sources etc) – 19,15%

Page Level KW and Content Features ( TF IDF, topic-modeling scores on content, content quantity/relevance) – 14,94%

Page-Level, Keyword-Agnostic Features( content length, readability, uniqueness, load speed)- 9.8%

Domain level based features(offline usage of brand/domain name, mentions of brand/domain in new media/press entity association)- 8,59%

The user, Usage traffic quarry date ( traffic/usage signals from browsers,/toolbars, quantity/ diversity, CTR of queries)- 8,06%

Social Metrics ( quality/quantity of tweeted links)- 7,24%

Domain Level Keyword Usage( exact-match keyword domains, partial-keyword matches)- 6,98%

Domain level Keyword Agnostic Feature( domain name length, TLD extension, domain HTTP, respond time)- 5,21%

SEO is mostly important as Google Algorithm looks for pages that contain high-quality, relevant information according to the searcher’s query. Besides Google Algorithm pays attention to the content of your site. Now let's pass on the second part of our article. Let's discuss the things that you should know about optimizing. The first thing that is very important for your website is to know what search engines are looking for.